William's second-in-command was the Duke of Schomberg, a 75-year-old professional soldier.

Initially Marshal Humières commanded French forces in this theatre but in 1689, while the French concentrated on the Rhine, it produced little more than a stand-off – the most significant engagement occurred when William's second-in-command, the Prince of Waldeck, defeated Humières in a skirmish at the Battle of Walcourt on 25 August.

Gaimar asserts that King Harold did this because he had heard of Duke William's landing in England, and needed to rush south to counter it.

Anton von Werner's depiction of William's proclamation as Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors ( Palace of Versailles ) | Hall of Mirrors in Palace of Versailles | Versailles ; Frederick I, Grand Duke of Baden | The Grand Duke of Baden ( top step, with hand raised ) leads the cheering.

The first was Duchess Anna of Prussia, daughter of Duke John William's eldest sister, Marie Eleonore of Cleves.

The second was Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg, who was the son of Duke John William's second eldest sister, Anna of Cleves.

Duchess Anna of Prussia claimed Jülich-Cleves-Berg as the heir to the senior line, while Wolfgang William, Count Palatine of Neuburg claimed Jülich-Cleves-Berg as Duke John William's eldest male heir.

Robert, William's father, became Duke of Normandy on 6 August 1027, in succession to his elder brother Richard III, who had only succeeded to the title the previous year.

William of Poitiers describes a council called by Duke William, in which the writer gives an account of a great debate that took place between William's nobles and supporters over whether to risk an invasion of England.

Under Salic law, the Kingdom of Hanover passes to William's brother, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, ending the personal union of Britain and Hanover which has persisted since 1714.

Harold then apparently accompanied William to battle against William's enemy, Conan II, Duke of Brittany.

Although William's successor Anne had considerable Tory sympathies and excluded the Junto Whigs from power, after a brief and unsuccessful experiment with an exclusively Tory government she generally continued William's policy of balancing the parties, supported by her moderate Tory ministers, the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Godolphin.

After King William's death in 1087 Edgar supported William's eldest son Robert Curthose, who succeeded him as Duke of Normandy, against his second son, William Rufus, who received the throne of England as William II.

On 6 January 1579, several southern provinces, unhappy with William's radical following, signed the Treaty of Arras, in which they agreed to accept their Catholic governor, Alessandro Farnese, Duke of Parma ( who had succeeded Don John ).

Odo, club in hand, rallies Duke William's troops during the Battle of Hastings, as shown on the Bayeux Tapestry

After the king's death Odo returned to his earldom and soon organized a rebellion in support of William's son Robert Curthose, who had been made Duke of Normandy.

After William's death in 1764, the villa passed to his and Charlotte's orphaned young son, William, the 5th Duke of Devonshire.

When Anne came to the throne after William's death in 1702, the Duke of Marlborough, together with Sidney Godolphin, the first Earl of Godolphin, rose to head the government, partly as a result of his wife's friendship with the queen.

Duke Robert had persuaded the king to allow Bishop William's return, perhaps in recognition of a service St-Calais performed for the king by brokering the end of a siege in Normandy that the king's forces were about to lose.

William first met Duke Louis Ernest of Brunswick-Lüneburg in 1747, and 2 years later appointed him field marshal of the Dutch States Army, which later led to his being one of the regents to William's heir.

Adelaide married William in a double wedding with William's brother, Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, and his bride Victoria, Dowager Princess of Leiningen, on 11 July 1818, at Kew Palace in Surrey, England.

William's half-brother Thomas Young, whilst serving with him as the Bristol MP's in 1450, had proposed a motion in Parliament for the recognition of his Yorkist royal patron Richard, Duke of York ( d. 1460 ) as heir to Henry's throne, for which action he was imprisoned.

Frederick Schomberg was second in command of William's army at the Battle of the Boyne in July 1690 during the Williamite War in Ireland.

Meanwhile Meinhardt Schomberg commanded the right wing of William's army during the battle and led the crucial crossing of the River Boyne at Roughgrange near Rosnaree on the Jacobites ' flank, the turning point in the confrontation, despite a gallant defence by Sir Neil O ' Neill, a Jacobite general.

On 13 August 1689 William's army under Marshal Frederick Schomberg, 1st Duke of Schomberg landed at Ballyholme Bay in County Down and, after capturing Carrickfergus, marched unopposed to Dundalk.

She sent Maria Eleonora to territory outside of George William's reach and concluded the marriage negotiations herself.

Explorers William Clark and his slave York were members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition ( 1803 – 1805 ), and William's older brother, General George Rogers Clark -- conqueror of the old Northwest Territory and Revolutionary War hero.

George Anson Starkweather, William's second-born, was the first non-native American born within the boundaries of what is now known as the city of Plymouth.

The land in Old Village was then passed to William's son, George A Starkweather.

Sir John's great-grandsons were William Cavendish ( 3rd husband of Bess of Hardwick ) and George Cavendish, William's brother and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey's biographer.

Cumberland's final years were lived out during the first years of the reign of his nephew, George III, who acceded to the throne on the death of William's father on 25 October 1760: Cumberland became a very influential advisor to the King and was instrumental in establishing the First Rockingham Ministry.

In 1787, she was granted an annual salary of £ 50 by George III for her work as William's assistant.

William's eldest brother was General George Howe, who was killed just before the 1758 Battle of Carillon at Fort Ticonderoga.

A member of the British Royal Family being reliably diagnosed with porphyria subsequently added credence to the theory – first proposed by Professor Macalpine in the late 1960s – that porphyria was the source of the ill-health of both Mary, Queen of Scots ( an ancestor of both of William's parents ) and of George III and that the disorder had been inherited by some members of the Royal Families of Great Britain, Prussia and several minor German dukedoms and principalities.

His father had hoped that the young prince might marry his cousin Victoria, thus keeping the British and Hanoverian thrones united, but nothing ever came of that desire and on King William's death, Victoria became Queen of the UK and George became 1st in line to the Hanoverian throne and 2nd in line to the British throne ( after his father ).

George IV's coronation was the most elaborate in history ; his brother and successor William IV eliminated the banquet, and William's desire to eliminate the costly banquet has now apparently become the custom.

The Clarke Papers are Sir William's working papers for 1623 / 24 to 1666, bequeathed by George Clarke, Sir William's son, to Worcester College, Oxford.

William's descendants however inherited a diminishing fortune and Captain George Mathew, the last of the family to live in Radyr, married Elizabeth Poyntz and the couple departed from Radyr to live on her estates at Thurles in County Tipperary, Ireland during 1625.

William's grandson George served as a soldier, as the MP for Bristol West, and as Treasurer of the Household.

Three weeks after signing her contract, George Sidney directed William's first screen test.

William's son George Cornwallis-West inherited Newlands in 1917 and sold it three years later.

As the youngest in William's family, George III was said to be his father's favorite and his constant companion.

At William's invitation, the Stephen family came to Montreal in 1847, and George joined them in 1850.

Baker undertook work in widespread parts of the country including Durban, Grahamstown, King William's Town, Bloemfontein, George and Oudtshoorn, and even further afield in Salisbury, Rhodesia where he designed the Anglican Cathedral and a house for Julius Weil, the general merchant.

She chose to escape on 2 May 1568 from Lochleven with the aid of Sir William's brother George and a young orphaned cousin named William Douglas who also lived at the castle and may or may not have been the earl's illegitimate son.

William's elder brother, John Chandler, was a successful East India merchant and his younger brother George Chandler, an attorney who served as a major during the Civil War.

) William's father was George W. Higgins, a white planter and cousin of Elizabeth's master Dr. Young.

Three of William's brothers, George, Charles, and Robert, partnered with him in trading with Native Americans in the West.